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Heat Sterilization of Hardwood Pallets and Pallet Material (NC State)

Bark-Free Pallets? The Issue Facing the World's Wooden Pallet Industry

Bark-Free Pallets - A Summary of the Issue

Dr. Ray's IUFRO-Poland Presentation on Inspection Issues Related to Bark on Pallets (7-4-06) - press F5 on your keyboard after the presentation is downloaded and PowerPoint opens the file to see and hear the presentation. Running time of complete presentation is 20 minutes.

 !    Pallet News Archives
Betty Garnett, an Industry Example, Passes Away (6-1-08)
CHEP Launches Sustainability Website (5-8-08)
Dole Fresh Vegetables Reconfirms its Commitment to the CHEP Equipment Pooling System (5-7-08)
Pallet basics (5-2-08)
Post office’s plastic gear lost to offices, recyclers (4-27-08)
Wal-Mart reviews supply chain, Brambles caught out (4-22-08)
Wal-Mart sparks Brambles meltdown (4-19-08)
Brambles plays down Wal-Mart worries (4-18-08)
IFCO Senior Managers Indicted For Immigrant Worker Conspiracy (4-1-08)
Five IFCO managers indicted on federal charges stemming from employing undocumented workers (3-12-08)
IFCO managers accused of illegal hiring (2-29-08)
Troymill (OH) Wood Products Rebuilt (2-1-08)
Millwood opens Tennessee pallet facility (11-29-07)
Rapid robot nails pallet-making problem (11-28-07)
B&G Foods Improves Customer Satisfaction With CHEP Pallets (11-15-07)
The Over-Dock Pallet Storage Rack: the Solution to Empty Pallet Storage Problems (12-8-07)
Imperial Sugar Implements RFID-Enabled Plastic Pallets (10-25-07)
Wood pallets to help power ethanol plant (11-15-07)
Enviro Pallets’ growth demands second shift (7-11-07)
Canada Pallet invests in massive lumber saw (6-13-07)
Thinking Ahead–Letter from Chaille: Don’t Mean to Bug You (5-1-07)
Market Update: Recycled Pallet Demand Makes Modest, Mixed Gains (5-1-07)
Pre-Sorting Cores Helps Bustling Texas Pallet Recycling Company (4-1-07)
Huntsman to exhibit new lightweight composite pallets (4-20-07)
Tesco and CHEP in green move (4-18-07)
OOIDA dishes out the "dirty truth" of produce transportation for FDA (4-16-07)
West Va. Forest Products Survives Market Shift With Transition to Specialty Pallet Stock (4-1-07)
Johanna Foods expands CHEP Program to Yogurt Lines (3-9-07)
Pool time? (3-9-07)
Lone Star Survivor: Ups & Downs of Pallet Life Along the Border (3-1-07)
Mayfair Lumber Expands Remanufacturing Operations (3-1-07)
Keeping Inventory Flowing Despite New Green Regulations (3-8-07)
Lost or Stolen? Postal Pallets Pose a Problem (3-1-07)
Five IFCO managers plead guilty in illegal immigrant worker case (2-27-07)
Brambles CEO to go after rescue (2-22-07)
Pallet Industry Timeline: PE Celebrates 25th Anniversary (12-1-06)
Pallet Standards And Specifications – The Evolution to Today (12-1-06)
Brambles Industries Profit Advances on U.S. Pallets (11-1-06)
Is Recycled Plastic Lumber a Viable Alternative for Pallets? (11-1-06)
Higher dividend tipped as a Brambles defence tactic (10-6-06)
Effect of Southern Pine Dimension Lumber Grade: Lumber Grade Impacts the Flexural Strength and Stiffness of Pallet Lumber (10-1-06)
Hardwood Supplies Gain; Urgency Exits Pallet Market (10-1-06)
Xterprise Provides RFID for Plastic Pallet Pool (9-1-06)
CHEP's new rival looks familiar (8-11-06)
Paperboard, cardboard pallets (7-24-06)
HC Wooden Pallets and CHEP Settle Dispute (6-21-06)
South Bay Pallets purchases property (5-11-06)
Wooden pallet industry highlights immigration issues (5-16-06)
OSHA Fines Pallet Repair Company $126,500 (5-17-06)
What makes a great pallet great (5-16-06)
Strike over at pallet factory (5-17-06)
Iroquois Enterprises workers out on strike (5-16-06)
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects (4-28-06)
What Was Behind the Big Raid (4-22-06)
Federal officials pledge to get tough on companies employing illegal immigrants (4-20-06)
ICE Agents Arrest Seven Managers of Nationwide Pallet Company and 1,187 of the Firm’s Illegal Alien Employees in 26 States (4-20-06)
Simplified Brambles hopes pallets stack up as vultures circle (3-25-06)
Logistics And Consumer Industry Veteran Launches Plastic Pallet Pooling Business Targeting Pharmaceutical, Consumer Electronics, And Other Consumer Packaged Goods Suppliers
(4-3-06)
Warehouse inferno causes at least $2 million damage at Pallet Consultants (3-4-06)
European Union Further Delays Debarking Requirement (3-1-06)
A Scientific Perspective: Expert Voices Opinion on Phytosanitary Challenges And Standards (3-1-06)
IFCO SYSTEMS reports new highs in revenues and operating earnings in 2005 (2-24-06)
Brambles has its pallets back on song (2-24-06)
Brambles 1st-Half Profit Rises 28% on Pallets Unit (2-23-06)
Jeco Plastic Products To Introduce New Precision Pallets at IPEX (2-15-06)
Bahraini consortium to produce revolutionary new shipping pallets (3-7-06)
EU delays packaging rules on tree-eating insects (2-8-06)
Pallets may now be turned away (2-12-06)
Greenpak Takes Solution-Oriented Approach to Servicing Customers (3-1-06)
Hardwood Flooring Market And Its Impact on Pallets (2-1-06)
EU Announces Requirements for Wood Packaging Material (2-21-05)
Plastic pallet packs more, bypasses fumigation law (2-12-05)
Imported Lumber for Manufacturing Pallets (10-5-04)
U.S. Pallet Market Update -- Recycled Demand White Hot but Cores Are Scarce (1-1-06)
Potential impact of international phytosanitary standards on use of wood packaging materials (2005)
Plastic pallet packs more, bypasses fumigation law (11-29-05)
Brambles volumes down on price increases (11-11-05)
BRAMBLES Industries to sell its underperforming waste management operations (11-30-05)
Pallet Design System (PDS) Undergoes Significant Changes (12-1-05)
Recycler of pallets buys former lumber plant (12-8-05)
Lean Manufacturing Approach Offers Potential, Challenges (12-1-05)
Firm to open pallet factory (10-31-05)
Sara Lee Food and Beverage Switches to CHEP; Financial and Environmental Benefits Cited as Reason for Move from One-Way Pallets (11-1-05)
Brambles sales and profits up (10-25-05)
Danish Snack Maker Puts RFID on Hold (11-1-05)
IBM and BEA Make RFID Moves (11-1-05)
To RFID Or Not? (11-1-05)
Saving industry pallet hire charges (10-19-05)
Noteholders push for change at Palco (9-29-05)
Brambles out of the woods as full-year profits rise (8-24-05)
Trinidad &Tobago to miss deadline for new export stamp (9-7-05)
United States: Customs Set To Enforce New Restrictions On Wood Packaging (9-19-05)
UK DC has key role in distribution chain (9-19-05)
New York Joins In Suit Against Invasive Insects (9-16-05)
States sue feds over tree-eating beetles (9-19-05)
Pendu Purchase of Cornell — A Natural Combination (9-1-05)
Auto Plant Spurs Growth In Pallet Recycling for South Carolina Company (7-1-05)
Edwards Wood Products Keeps Improving (7-1-05)
British Pallet Company Stays On Track for Growth, Expansion (6-1-05)
American Pallet Leasing Introduces Revolutionary Pallet Cleansing Product (5-10-05)
Company Makes Smart Cases, Pallets (5-11-05)
Use treated wooden pallets, Malaysian exporters told (4-7-05)
Hardwood Market Struggles to Maintain Working Inventory (4-1-05)
Pallet quality cited as reason for Agropur move to CHEP (3-22-05)
North Dakota pallet company finds use for waste product (3-2-05)
Mexican Pallet Company Weathers Change in Currency Exchange Rates (3-1-05)
Mt. Valley Focused on Selling What Customers Want and Adding Value (3-1-05)
Mexico announces final rule for wood packaging materials effective September 16th (2-28-05)
Leader of the stack (2-28-05)
Brambles half year profit jumps 71 percent (2-23-05)
Tree-Eating Insects Threaten EU-US Packaging Trade (2-21-05)
Cooperating to Compete: White Wood Pallet Rental Service Near? (2-7-05)
These pallets move the KC area (11-16-04)
GMA: Business Case for EPC Mixed (11-22-04)
British Pallet Company Grows to Leading Role by Acquisitions (11-8-04)
Buckeye Succeeds as ‘Full Service’ Provider of Shipping Products (11-8-04)
American Pallet Leasing Appoints Chief Financial Officer (11-3-04)
International Commerce Impacts U.S. Pallet Demand (4-1-2004)
Bar Codes Expected To Have A Long Life (10-21-04)
A special pallet (10-22-04)
RPM Technologies Inc. Develops New Multi-Use Plastic Pallets (10-19-04)
USDA Rule on Pallets and Pests Leaves Some Fuming (10-12-04)
Sowing the Seeds (10-9-04)
New York Company Fired Most of Its Customers in Order to Improve Profits (10-5-04)
CW Products Launches into New Era for Washington Container Company (10-5-04)
Phytosanitary Regulations Continue to Present Challenges and Opportunities (10-5-04)
Imported Lumber for Manufacturing Pallets (10-5-04)
Plastic Pallets Get BAP Tags (7-22-04)
Russian Cut Stock Company Prospers While Supplying European Pallet Makers (9-1-04)
Groundbreaking innovations in plastics packaging and pallets (8-30-04)
Brambles rise continues (9-1-04)
2 arrested after wooden pallets discovered at residence (9-1-04)
IFCO Systems Acquires Operations of New Jersey Based American Pallet Transfer (6-21-04)
Brambles serves CHEP managers up on pallet (6-25-04)
PalWeb Orders New Injection Molding Machine and Plastic Pallet Mold (6-14-04)
Anheuser-Busch to replace wooden pallets with plastic (6-8-04)
Pallet Industry Continues to Adjust to Change (5-3-04)
New crating material business opens (4-7-04)
RPM Technologies, Inc. Expands Sales Force and Hires Executive Vice President (3-18-04)
Worst May Be Over For Brambles (3-25-04)
From Landfill to Living Room: Turning Wooden Pallets Into Flooring (3-18-04)
On a Faster Track: How America's No. 2 railroad went high tech to grab a bigger slice of the booming China trade (3-8-04)
Hardwood for Pallets: What Is Happening with Our Lumber Suppy? (2-3-04)
N.C. Pallet Recycler Makes Innovative Use of Information Technology (2-2-04)

CHEP’s RFID Lessons: CHEP is ready with RFID solution (2-2-04)

Fumigation 101: The Other Pallet Treatment Alternative (2-2-04)
Pallet Consultants Corp. Quickly Establishes National Presence (2-2-04)
Maine Pallet Manufacturer Is Going, Growing Strong (12-1-03)
Minnesota Company Committed to Quality in Pallet Recycling (11-3-03)
Wood pallet suppliers' reaction to online reverse auctions (10-17-03)
Bulk industrial plastic tubs to compete with pallets (10-30-03)
Sanctions urged over illegal staff at pallet maker (10-24-03)
RPM Plastic Pallet Revolutionizes Parts Handling in the Automotive Industry (10-21-03)
Fire destroys Forest Junction, WI business (10-21-03)
Oil City cuts deal with American Recyling Wood and Pallet Company (10-20-03)
NHLA Heat Treatment Program Factoids (9-24-03)
  Flying Solo or Teaming Up — Which Is Better In The Long Run? (7-1-03)
Maine town looks for solutions to pallet pileup (6-26-03)
Company Moves To Sterilization Kilns For Treating Pallets For Export (5-1-03)
RPM Technologies Penetrates the Growing World Plastic Pallet Market
IPPC Passage – Just the Beginning
Pallet Design System (PDS) Introductory Course to be taught November 14-16

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